Just what the title says
This print is featured as an unadvertised bonus to Kino's magnificent collection "The Movies Begin: A Treasury of Early Cinema in the second volume, namely "The European Pioneers." The reason they call this an unadvertised bonus is because the print survives in a most blurry condition, thus it is below Kino's standard quality.
In this exploitative film, we witness a violent execution of a so-called "spy" (as you can imagine) by firing squad. Executions was another popular film subject at the time so I guess this was an attempt to create controversy. Nowadays, we don't only film executions, we also try to tell a story. In the meantime, there's movies like these which concentrate more on getting reactions than trying to have a plot.
(Note: I would like to sometime like to review all ten of the unadvertised bonus features. This is the fifth of the ten, so I'm half way through).
In this exploitative film, we witness a violent execution of a so-called "spy" (as you can imagine) by firing squad. Executions was another popular film subject at the time so I guess this was an attempt to create controversy. Nowadays, we don't only film executions, we also try to tell a story. In the meantime, there's movies like these which concentrate more on getting reactions than trying to have a plot.
(Note: I would like to sometime like to review all ten of the unadvertised bonus features. This is the fifth of the ten, so I'm half way through).
- Tornado_Sam
- Jun 1, 2017